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Re: OT:Sony copy protected CD's installing spyware

Posted by Bruce Stephens on 11/03/05 23:36

guv <guv69@msn.com> writes:

> On Thu, 3 Nov 2005 21:35:33 -0000, Ridwan Hughes
> <fox@ridhughz.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>Certain 'copy protected' CD's issued by Sony have been installing hidden
>>spyware on PCs that's not easily removable:
>>
>>> http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/2005/10/sony-rootkits-and-digital-rights.html
>>
>>> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/02/AR2005110202362.html?sub=new
>>
>>Yet another reason to boycott 'copy protected' CD's.
>
> Jesus. I would have thought that illegal!

It probably is (in the US and UK, anyway).

However, Sony's a big company, presumably with strong political
influence. What's the betting they get away with it, and that the law
is changed to allow them to do this kind of thing in the future, and
make it illegal to attempt to remove or even comment on it?

With any luck Blizzard will sue:
<http://www.securityfocus.com/brief/34>. (You can use Sony's
anti-iPod software to hide cheating software from Blizzard's
anti-cheating program.)

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